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TY - JOUR
T1 - Mechanisms to Enhance Resilience and Post-traumatic Growth in Residential Care
T2 - a Narrative Review
AU - Parry, Sarah
AU - Cox, Nigel
AU - Andriopoulou, Panoraia
AU - Oldfieild, Jeremy
AU - Roscoe, Shabana
AU - Palumbo-Haswell, Jasmin
AU - Collins, Scarlett
PY - 2023/3/31
Y1 - 2023/3/31
N2 - Residential care is primarily considered most appropriate for young people with complex needs, often due to multi-typetraumas. Children in care are disproportionately disadvantaged, with children in residential care most vulnerable, which iswhy it is so important to understand mechanisms that support resilience and post-traumatic growth for this group of youngpeople. This review aimed to advance our understanding of how interventions, refections upon experience, and constructsof resilience can enhance developing resilience in children’s homes for young people in care. International quantitative andqualitative studies were sought to identify features and mechanisms of care that underpin developing resilience. Following asystematic search of six databases, 25 papers were selected for review, with a total sample of 3198 individuals up to the ageof 30 years old who were either receiving residential care (N=3037) or who were care leavers (N=161). Themes from thequantitative studies and a narrative synthesis of qualitative studies were developed. Therapeutic mechanisms and processesto support the development of resilience included experiencing love and trust with staf in homes through therapeutic relationships, nurturing self-compassion, promoting self-value and self-belief, positive future thinking, problem-focused coping,school engagement, constructing a positive origin story, and positive visualisations of a stable future. Measures of resiliencecould more accurately refect post-traumatic growth and potential for resilience development for this unique group of youngpeople, which in turn could inform intervention design and evaluation. Measures appreciative of intrapersonal, relational,community and environmental factors could be particularly useful for intervention design.
AB - Residential care is primarily considered most appropriate for young people with complex needs, often due to multi-typetraumas. Children in care are disproportionately disadvantaged, with children in residential care most vulnerable, which iswhy it is so important to understand mechanisms that support resilience and post-traumatic growth for this group of youngpeople. This review aimed to advance our understanding of how interventions, refections upon experience, and constructsof resilience can enhance developing resilience in children’s homes for young people in care. International quantitative andqualitative studies were sought to identify features and mechanisms of care that underpin developing resilience. Following asystematic search of six databases, 25 papers were selected for review, with a total sample of 3198 individuals up to the ageof 30 years old who were either receiving residential care (N=3037) or who were care leavers (N=161). Themes from thequantitative studies and a narrative synthesis of qualitative studies were developed. Therapeutic mechanisms and processesto support the development of resilience included experiencing love and trust with staf in homes through therapeutic relationships, nurturing self-compassion, promoting self-value and self-belief, positive future thinking, problem-focused coping,school engagement, constructing a positive origin story, and positive visualisations of a stable future. Measures of resiliencecould more accurately refect post-traumatic growth and potential for resilience development for this unique group of youngpeople, which in turn could inform intervention design and evaluation. Measures appreciative of intrapersonal, relational,community and environmental factors could be particularly useful for intervention design.
KW - Residential
KW - Resilience
KW - Post-traumatic growth
KW - Narrative review
KW - Intervention
U2 - 10.1007/s42844-022-00074-w
DO - 10.1007/s42844-022-00074-w
M3 - Journal article
VL - 4
SP - 1
EP - 21
JO - Adversity and Resilience Science
JF - Adversity and Resilience Science
IS - 1
ER -